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First sign of animal life on Earth may be a sponge fossil

By CHRISTINA LARSONJuly 28, 2021 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

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